Only an emotionally invested frenzied brigadier would be incapable of recognizing that if a media company is calling for some action, that their call is done in an editorial, not in a news story.
Yes, the Washington comPost wants Pelosi to sit down and negotiate. Fact.
So it wasn't fake news or a lie as the frenzied brigadier alleged. Another one too emotionally engaged.But to refuse even to talk until the government reopens does no favors to sidelined federal workers and contractors.
Unquestionably a deal would contain galling elements for both sides; that’s the nature of compromise. But a measure of statesmanship for a member of Congress now is the ability to accept some disappointments, and shrug off the inevitable attacks from purists, if it means rescuing the lives of thousands of deserving people living among us.
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Regarding my responses to vlad's brigadiers -- and my choices not to respond -- I have taken a position whereby I do not waste time with those who have repeatedly engaged in ad hominem attacks, straw man tactics and red herrings. On the rare occasion when I do choose to respond, it is to refute their emotional and frenzied misinformation -- as I have done above.
As an example of the foolishness, here is some idiocy that recently occurred in my latest encounter with a brigadier. Despite my providing facts and sourced information on what departments were paid and not paid in the shutdown, the brigadier offhandedly rejected it all. The hyterical irony of it all is that the source he quoted, and that he was using to claim that I was wrong, actually backed up what I had repeatedly told him -- almost word for word. He hadn't even read his own citation.
So it's not only a waste of time to provide citations to brigadiers who will just ignore them, but they don't even read their own quoted material! Their emotional investment and frenzy to GET TRUMP and play some gotcha game with me, blinds them and won't allow them to engage in reasonable civil discourse.
So I respond when I feel like it. I let the brigadiers do their own research on information that I provide because they've proven that they won't believe it anyway. If they get it wrong, I might ignore it or I might refute it. I may provide a source, or not. For the most part, I ignore them 24/7 because they have no sincere interest in what I post anyway.
As I've stated numerous times, I don't post to change the mind of a brigadier. I post for readers to be able to see the other side of the GET TRUMP agenda.
Make me laugh some more about who is responsible for any "mockery." The brigadiers have owned it from Day 1.
